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With a new series of Doctor Who comes Doctor Who Confidential – and the new official website has news on the first installment of the BBC Three “making of…” series. “Call me the Doctor” is the title of the first episode, and captures the backstage excitement from Matt Smith’s first episode. With an exclusive look…

Various past guest stars from Doctor Who have been linked to a wide range of projects lately, including Carey Mulligan and Sophia Myles. Top of the list however is the gorgeous Gugu Mbatha-Raw (Tish Jones, sister of Martha in several episodes of the 2007 series of Doctor Who including The Lazarus Experiment) who was spotted…

We’ve been waiting for this for literally months (ever since the previous version got revamped into a poor attempt at a blog for Dreamland) but the BBC have finally come up trumps with a redesigned Doctor Who website! The new address is www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/dw – get it bookmarked! Complete with a countdown clock to The Eleventh…

A pair of young sisters are among the guests in Matt Smith’s first outing as the new Doctor Who – appearing in The Eleventh Hour was good enough to get the pair into their local paper… Eden and Merin Monteath were sent the scripts quite early – they didn’t know if they would be working…

So, exactly how much does age matter? Since the casting of Matt Smith, the youngest Doctor yet, there has been a great deal of hoo-hah about his age. Even Steven Moffat, when making the announcement, evidently felt obliged to make heavy weather out of Smithâ€™s combination of youthfulness and old age, as if to assuage…

Behind the rest of the press pack, SFX gave The Eleventh Hour an online thumbs up this week, giving the new Doctor Who time to breathe before delivering their verdict. The popular sci fi magazine – whose website has recently experienced its own long-overdue regeneration – give little away about the plot, but do make…

A bastion of Olde Englande, morality and sympathising with fascists, the Daily Mail has a unique place in British culture – just like Doctor Who. But while Doctor Who is generally loved and appreciated, the Daily Mail is largely ridiculed – and columnists like Allison Pearson don’t exactly help matters. This week, she took umbrage…